We Are In a Pandemic of Lawlessness, and Jesus’ Word Is the Vaccine

By Donald Werner

Like a pandemic virus that has blanketed the whole world, lawlessness has covered the earth like a blanket. We read in the Book of the Revelation, and "all the world" has been deceived and wonders after the Beast. And that Beast is the same serpent Beast that was in the Garden of Eden. What is the Beast's deception? It's the deception that causes lawlessness. That's the very same deception that caused Adam and Eve to fall. And it is the very same deception that is taught from Paul's Epistles in our churches today. And that lawlessness, according to Jesus will result in eternal death. Yet, there is a vaccine that will prevent that virus and its resulting death. That vaccine is the application of Jesus' words, pointing us back to YHVH as our supreme authority. Jesus told us that if we kept his word, we would never see death. As you will read, our cure is a matter of selecting our supreme authority.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667111162

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6/2/2021

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We Are In a Pandemic of Lawlessness, and Jesus’ Word Is the Vaccine

Copyright © 2021 Donald Werner. All rights reserved.

Published by Donald Werner

ISBN 978-1-6671-1116-2

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THE PREFACE

Someday we will all stand before the Judge at the gate of the New Jerusalem.  Imagine the sadness and the shock of someone, even though they were religious and were assured of their salvation, to hear the Judge say, Depart from me, you who practiced lawlessness, for I never knew you.  Then the Judge will bring to their remembrance all the warnings which they ignored and they will suddenly realize that it’s because they ignored those warnings that they were deceived by the ‘serpent beast’ and stand guilty before the Judge – the weight of the guilt is on their heads as they shamefully acknowledge it was their own fault – and now they face the consequences of the ignoring the warnings, eternal death.  And according to Jesus, when they grasp the reality and the hopelessness of their situation, "There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Jesus warns us that the lawless deception would be on the scale of a pandemic.

Matthew 24:4 (NKJV), And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you."

Matthew 24:5 (NKJV), For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Matthew 24:11-12 (NKJV), "Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold."

Matthew 24:24 (NKJV), For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Because to that deception, ‘Lawlessness’ will abound, it is pandemic.  In the Book of the Revelation we read that ‘all the world’ is deceived and follows after the teachings of the Beast, and those who following teachings of the beast will receive the mark of the Beast and be subjected to the plagues and judgments of God ending with eternal destruction.

Properly used, Jesus’ vaccine will stop the pandemic of deception.  Jesus administered the vaccine when repeatedly told us and warned us of the deception which results in lawlessness and will cause people to lose their eternal lives.  Those warnings are for all Christian who have ears to hear.

THE INTRODUCTION

Ok, I’ll admit it, that I created a fearful and frightening picture in the Preface of this book. The only problem is, that’s not fiction, I didn’t make it up, and it’s from Jesus’ own words.  That’s exactly the way it will happen to ‘the many’ (i.e., most people) who are on the Broad way leading to destruction.

Most people in the church have been so deceived and indoctrinated with the idea that there is no need to keep God’s laws, and thus they believe that their lawlessness will not condemn them.  Paul may have said that, but that’s contrary to what Jesus and his apostles said.  That we will explore in this book.

And I realize that most people believe they will never face eternal destruction, it will never happen to them. Most people believe that they are going to heaven.  One pastor I knew went door to door asking people if they believed they will go to heaven, and 95% answered, ‘yes’.  But then when he asked them what did they base their assurance on, the two most prevalent answers mentioned were: religion and good behavior.  Both answers are extremely flawed.

Can religion save us?  Can we trust our religious leaders to point out to us the Narrow way leading to eternal life?  Can we trust them to warn us when we are on the Broad way leading to destruction – when they themselves are on the wrong path?  Jesus said if out religious leaders are deceived, they will pass that deception onto us, and we will be deceived.  And he added that ‘the many’ are deceived by their shepherds, who are their priests and pastors – and they are false prophets.  A false prophet is a person who doesn’t keep Jesus’ words and tells others that they don’t need to keep it either. Christian preachers, pastors, priest, and teachers don’t keep Jesus’ words, I’ll explain that in this book.

Can good behavior save us?  Can a person trust his own moral compass to guild them on the Narrow way leading to eternal life?  Jesus told us that it’s by keeping his words that we will receive eternal life and those who will not keep his words will suffer eternal death.

So, according to Jesus ‘the many’; are on the Broad way leading to eternal death, and they don’t know it, because they have been deceived religious, who themselves are deceived.  If Jesus’ word is truth, then whoever teaches contrary to what Jesus said are deceivers.

As I will share in this book, it all started with the Garden of Eden, and the lie told by the ‘serpent beast’ is still being propagated by deceived false prophets.

Fortunately, Jesus tells us that there are those ‘few’ truth seekers who will be saved. Jesus’ words, like a vaccine have set them free from the damning pandemic of deceptions. By keeping Jesus’ words, they separated themselves for the ‘many’ on the Broad way leading to destructions and enter into the Narrow way through the Narrow gate.

In this book I will share with you Jesus’ vaccine, i.e., his words and fearful warnings, telling us what we must do to avoid that damning pandemic of deception, for which we will lose our eternal life.  Jesus’ words provide the truth that will keep us from being deceived.  And if we are deceived now, only the truth of